March: Pusekätzchen
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common_natureI went out for a little walk this morning and found the first willow catkins - Pusekätzchen! They are an important flower for bees at this time of year, not just for honey bees but for solitary bees, bumblebees and solitary wasps.
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AMA: How many ducks?
Mar. 11th, 2026 12:20 pmduckprintspresshttps://www.tiktok.com/@duckprintspress/video/7616005236091538718?_r=1&_t=ZP-94bNtazdpGQ
(video ID: a white person with short reddish hair and gold-rimmed glasses sits before a bookcase and speaks. /end ID)
Transcript: So I got this question as an ask on Tumblr, and I have been trying to do the math on it ever since. And the question is, how many ducks have you personally printed?
And that is a really tough question. I think it hinges on “personally” and “printed.” So if you mean, me myself with my own printer, probably a few hundred. I put them on things like address labels and those I print myself. Alternatively, if you don’t get caught up on “printed,” for an event I did a year and a half ago I did cut out roughly 150 construction paper ducks. Those I most definitely made all myself. If you don’t focus on “personally,” in that i’ve paid vendors to print them… thousands. Because of all of the different duck stickers, we’ve got several covers that have ducks, most of our back covers have our logo on it, which as a duck. It’s on, like, all of our title pages, so yeah. If we go with that one, we’re… we’re well into the high thousands I would think.
So, yeah. How many ducks have I personally printed? A whole, whole lot. There are many more ducks in the world than you’re used to be because of me. You’re welcome. Bye.
Freedom of speech
Mar. 11th, 2026 02:18 pmlivThere's been a rant I have been meaning to turn into an essay for a while, but Ken White (Popehat) has done it better, so I direct you to his really well-written and referenced (though US-centric) article: The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically. Criticism. Is. Not. Censorship, and
This is important in Europe too, not just in the US, because it's a deliberate, specific Russian infowar tactic to promote far right events at UK universities and claim censorship if anyone objects. A
( shorter version of my original opinion, building on White's piece )
“Free speech culture” has a natural tendency to discount the speech rights and interests of people who criticize speech.
This is important in Europe too, not just in the US, because it's a deliberate, specific Russian infowar tactic to promote far right events at UK universities and claim censorship if anyone objects. A
network based at [Cambridge] University and backed by Thiel, which it said was using the issue of free speech to “normalise white nationalism on UK campuses”.Neither Putin nor Thiel has anyone's freedom at heart, and they're all too successful at distracting people with a toddler-like notion of "freedom" where you get to say the naughty words without being told off.
( shorter version of my original opinion, building on White's piece )
WWW Wednesday
Mar. 11th, 2026 10:22 amduckprintspress1. What are you currently reading?
- The Apothecary Diaries light novel vol. 4 by Natsu Hyuuga: this is due on Libby in like 3 days so I gotta read like the wind
- 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔: I'm noticing I'm (finally) getting a bit faster, and I feel like I'm understanding most of it. I might yet be able to catch up to my "1 page a day" plan (I should be at page 70; I'm actually on page 66. so close!)
2. What have you recently finished reading?
- Lout of Count's Family vol. 7 by Yu Ryeo-Han: this volume was mostly scheming, so had less action than the previous one, but yum, that delicious Cale whump. I love how everyone around him is now very obviously like, "oh. so he's full of shit. well then we'll just have to take matters into our own hands." Like, they were already like that but now it's been dialed up to 11.
- Love and Gravity by Ari North: this was fine, but it touched on some heavy stuff (like eating disorders) and then like. didn't actually engage with them at all? It was weird.
- SHWD episode 3 by sono.N: this moved on from the previous two main characters to focus on two new people and still had all the same weirdness as the other three in terms of plot jumps and stuff... even tho there's only one episode left I decided I don't care enough to bother.
- Imitation Play by Ann Homare: I rather liked this single-volume smutty modern BL.
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 9 by Fuse
- Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 1 by Tsumuji Yoshimura: interesting start to a high school story set in a world where people pick gender and the main character has opted out of that. The reviews are full of people who make me despair for reading comprehension, though, they're all like, "ugh this was so awful for reproducing the same gender essentialism as the real world has" and like THIS IS VOLUME 1 and if you can't see that criticizing that essentialism is clearly going to be the entire point then why did you even pick this book up in the first place uggggh why. "This long series didn't disassemble the thing it's critiquing in volume 1 so it failed" wut.
- The Little Bird Sleeps by the Sea by Yuu Minaduki: I don't like kidfic and had low expectations for this modern BL AU but it was surprisingly sweet.
- A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 6 by Makoto Hagino: I'm dropping this series. This entire volume was zero communication, pointless jealousy. Whyyyyy do so many HS GL manga titles lean in on jealousy this is annoying and exhausting.
3. What will you read next?
Novels: Don't You Like Me vol. 2 by Lv Tian Yi
Graphic Novels (physical): I really need to knuckle down on these books from the library. Sleepless Domain vol. 1 by Oscar Vega and Mary Cagle is still next, oops.
Graphic Novels (Libby): I got through all of last week's "oh no, this is due imminently" titles but now I have new ones: Yuri Espoir vol. 1 by Mai Naoi and How Do We Relationship? vol. 3 by Tamifull.
In general, I'm trying to reduce the number of things I have in loan and lean more into a "I borrow what I feel like reading that day" model, but I have holds and those keep coming through and messing up my intention to change. Oops? You'd think this would lead me to stop putting holds on things, and yet... (but genuinely I do have fewer holds than I have had in the past...)
Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)
Mar. 11th, 2026 09:01 amjames_davis_nicoll
Who is stalking the son of the man convicted for causing the Seryong Lake Disaster?
Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)
Challenge 509: Plant
Mar. 11th, 2026 04:44 pmchina_shop posting in fan_flashworksOur new challenge is:
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PLANT
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ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)Admin: Challenge closed
Mar. 11th, 2026 04:39 pmchina_shop posting in fan_flashworksThe Anticipation challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:
The Professionals: Fanfiction: Sexy Sunday bylucy_roman
FAKE: Fanfic: The Big Jump bybadly_knitted
Doctor Who: Fanfiction: Cloudbound Dreaming byinfinitum_noctem
Culture Club: Fanfic: Six Hats and a Suitcase bymidnight_heavenly_bodies
The Double: fanfic: some fences will forever stay unmended byteaotter
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: First Date byveronyxk84
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: An Unexpected Situation bysmallhobbit
Torchwood: Fanfic: Desperate times bym_findlow
9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Worth It bydarkjediqueen
Crash Fever: Fanart: in the digital rain byx95
Ponies (TV 2026): Fanfic: waiting for someone else byalasse_irena
Marvel 1610 (comics): icons: Step into my Parlor byhighlander_ii
Fanservice Paradox: Fanfic: the rise of the wall (in the future, things will happen) bybluedreaming
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The Professionals: Fanfiction: Sexy Sunday by
lucy_romanFAKE: Fanfic: The Big Jump by
badly_knittedDoctor Who: Fanfiction: Cloudbound Dreaming by
infinitum_noctemCulture Club: Fanfic: Six Hats and a Suitcase by
midnight_heavenly_bodiesThe Double: fanfic: some fences will forever stay unmended by
teaotterViola come il mare: Fanfic: First Date by
veronyxk84Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: An Unexpected Situation by
smallhobbitTorchwood: Fanfic: Desperate times by
m_findlow9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Worth It by
darkjediqueenCrash Fever: Fanart: in the digital rain by
x95Ponies (TV 2026): Fanfic: waiting for someone else by
alasse_irenaMarvel 1610 (comics): icons: Step into my Parlor by
highlander_iiFanservice Paradox: Fanfic: the rise of the wall (in the future, things will happen) by
bluedreaming\o/ \o/ \o/
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another big swing from a young hitter
Mar. 10th, 2026 10:08 pmmusesfoolI don't love that Nolan McLean gave up 2 home runs in the same inning in this game, but I do love that Team Italia celebrates with an Armani blazer and an espresso (they literally have an espresso machine in the dugout and if someone hits a homer, he gets a shot) and then the team captain kisses the guy while everyone else does this: 🤌
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Exchanges and Crafting and Recs and Whatnot, Take Two
Mar. 10th, 2026 08:06 pmdonutsweeperAnother exchange, Battleship, announced it won't be running this year :( It's totally understandable since even before it had so many signups it was so intensive to run but with the #s it had and all the chaos from last year it makes sense they'd want a break but I'm still sad it's skipping this year, I really only do three exchanges a year (h/c ex, battleship and yuletide) with two not running it's such a change for me and leaving me frustrated and wrong footed.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
Here's a few weeks ofrecthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs:
A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
I did stick with the nalbinding long enough to figure out a lot of the stitches. It is an interesting craft but I mostly wanted to learn it for making socks and while I liked the coptic stitch (which was how Romans and Egyptians made their socks) I could *not* get the increases to lie flat (apparently this is common according to the vids I watched) and while I could get the york stitch ones to do so, in general working it (and all nalbinding actually) just took so much attention I couldn't really do anything else while crafting and there also was quite a bit of eyestrain. Glad I gave it a serious try, might pick it back up some day, but for the moment it's a done and dusted thing for me.
After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
Very happy finally figured out how to make a circle rug; I don't think it'll be something I make often due to lack of place to put it and also the amount of space needed to make it but still. Yay, rug!After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
Here's a few weeks of
recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs: A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
Question thread #149
Mar. 11th, 2026 01:39 ampauamma posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_devIt's time for another question thread!
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[127] RESIDENT EVIL (various)
Mar. 10th, 2026 09:27 pmzombieproof posting in icons---RESIDENT EVIL 4 (REMAKE)
[x]55 leon scott kennedy
[x]3o luis serra
[x]o2 leon & luis
[x]o2 ingrid hunnigan
---RESIDENT EVIL: INFINITE DARKNESS
[x]23 leon scott kennedy
---RESIDENT EVIL 6
[x]o6 leon scott kennedy
[x]o9 helena harper
( i have no good cut text for this )
[x]55 leon scott kennedy
[x]3o luis serra
[x]o2 leon & luis
[x]o2 ingrid hunnigan
---RESIDENT EVIL: INFINITE DARKNESS
[x]23 leon scott kennedy
---RESIDENT EVIL 6
[x]o6 leon scott kennedy
[x]o9 helena harper
( i have no good cut text for this )
Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
Mar. 10th, 2026 08:55 pmsovayNot only is 42 °N a lousy latitude for radio astronomy, it does jack most of the year for the photosynthesis of vitamin D, but I was inspired by the summerlike spike in temperatures to walk out for groceries in a T-shirt and whatever it may or may not have done for my metabolism, it was worth the pitching over onto the couch when I got home.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
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Admin Post: New Challenge: Famous Last Words
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dawn_felagund posting in silwritersguild
Most people remember best what they heard last, and authors and songwriters have long capitalized on this trick of brain wiring by signing off their stories, plays, poems, and songs with a truly memorable last line. This month, we pay homage to some of history's best and most noteworthy last words by offering a selection of them as prompts for creating a fanwork.
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Write every day! - March 2026 - Day 10
Mar. 11th, 2026 12:40 amzwei_hexenTally:
Welcome post
Day 1::badly_knitted, brithistorian, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 2:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 3:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 4:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 5:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 6:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 7:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 8:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 9:badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 10:china_shop
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ysilme here: 529 words for a new drawer fic.
sylvanwitch here: 202 words on "Dixon and the Detective."
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badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 4:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 5:
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badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 7:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 8:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 9:
badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 10:
china_shopLet us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: 529 words for a new drawer fic.sylvanwitch here: 202 words on "Dixon and the Detective."[books, movement] A Physical Education, Casey Johnston
Mar. 10th, 2026 10:34 pmkaberettBack at the beginning of January beadsbuttonslace wrote up some reflections on this book, which interested me enough that I put in a hold on my library's only digital copy, which was an audiobook, and then I managed to listen to it in under a week, and now I am subscribed to Johnston's newsletter (and reading its archives) and also trying to work out whether I want to buy a physical copy or a digital copy for my own library.
Which is to say: I liked it. A lot.
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And some final notes:
- it was only earlier today that I realised that an article that did the rounds a little while ago, The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life... is BY THIS SAME PERSON
- at least two of you will be delighted to know that in the Epilogue, she ( spoilers... )